DJRE45KINGS Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 NINO AND J.LO(JOHNNY LO) TAGS----EARLY-MID 80'S CHILL J.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbish heap Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 seeing METRO on a freeway overpass when i was little. seeing a production under a bridge when i was little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODS-1 Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 In 3rd grade passing through a viaduct full of awesome tags everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunm Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 Riding on Bart with my mom out to my grandmas house in pleasenton. WHere the old Sears building used to be in Oakland on east 14th there was a huge production (I think joker had a part in it. Didn't he get shot at while painting it?) and I was just amazed by it. There's very very little of it left now and I can only fill in the blank spots with my memory. My mom used to have an art studio in berkeley and while she'd paint I'd walk around and check out the tags and pieces thinking to myself "goddamn, how do they do it?!?!?" My friend nate in high school turned me on to graff and the first mag I ever picked up was Can Control number one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyLazy Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 Growing up in SF/Oakland in (my opinion) the glory days of early to mid 90's, I saw a bunch of great stuff. I don't remember any specific times, but my big brother would point things out to me saying things like "that's twist. he's awesome." or "see that guy Giant?" But I do remember one time, I was coming across the bridge from Oaklnd to SF with my family and I saw a Rem Horse on this fence right before the bridge. I just knew her as the "horse lady" before i started remembering all the "names." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWIMS Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 STL/NO STL-Loki Earl and Slug throw on 40 and Grand. On the bus in 3rd grade my driver used to stop and talk to her friend and there was a wall in the alley. Stun wall on streetside. I also remember these wheatpastes on the highway, they had an N inside crosshairs. -When my mom moved out of the city there were old train lines in our backyard. Under the highway there is a newa and poser burner and this neigborhood kid that wrote moza. When I found out they were from the east it made me think how they ended up under a suburban overpass in St. Louis. NO- A jes straight letter on the bridge as you go across the lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staE Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 the first time i realized graffiti was when i was like maybe 8-10 years old, i would see this "SRIN" throw-up all over the place, but i had no clue what it was. i believed that it was a gang thing, and my brother and i would always see them around. haha, it was cool. oh btw, im in toronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowkid Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 it was third grade, a kid in my class' brother was trying to write, and me and my friends thought it was so cool. i learned what a tag was and i started paying attention to shit on the local walls where i lived.(milford, ct at the time). i remember kayo was up everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talon Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and my class took a field trop. We rode the train to wherever we were going, and I remember seein a lot of stuff. The one thing that I really remember was an angry lookin spraycan character on a rooftop. I had no clue what it meant, and it kinda scared me until I really looked into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InnerCityRebel Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 i would have to say 88 or there abouts.I would see it in the LA river off the 134 all the time..Shit is started to fade through the old ass buff..Wow that brings back memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 I remember seeing a huge mural on my way to the bowling alley....It had three graffers holding onto a pole while a dragon/krylon can was spitting fire......It had a huge impact on my life....Ill try to find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adderall Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 tags on lightpoles in the 80s and then bombing on all of the buildings facing the highways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 This is the flick of what got me hooked.... http://img56.photobucket.com/albums/v170/Ryke1/General%20Graff/d567c342.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wreck one Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Originally posted by Vanity dunno who.. but i remember seeing marker tags on signal boxes on corners in poorer neighborhoods in milwaukee in like... 86-87? i didnt understand them. i thought it was spanish or something. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubbeRBand Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 MASS PIKE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyneedexperience1 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Hey all you goons and goonettes out there in cyber land. What was the very first time you noticed Graffiti and what did you notice first. For example I first noticed giant colorful fillin's and insides on Bronx trains in 1975 or 76 on our way to Grandma's apt.yo I remember this kid used to write NOMAD, he used to do mad font styles, but the one style that I saw him up with was a red,orange,white, and black jumbo throwie. The way he used the colors gave the effect that the letters were melting away and dripping downward. Have yet to see this style duplicated. I have'nt seen any NOMAD stuff since. That was 84'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavicon Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Big ol' silver Sivel on a billboard on the way to the supermarket with my ma. bout late 80's. Blew my mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUCKMUNI Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 in san francisco riding the buses with my moms and seeing all these kids hop on buses, fuck them up, yell at riders, start mad shit. i remember i went home and bombed all my toy buses and cars.....i forgot about graffiti for a long time untill i hit high school and ran into other writers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 1988 a guy leant over a fence and dropped a tag above the window of the train i was on straight in front of me. the ion 1989 a picee by Dmote had a charo with a bong saying "75% of sydney's crime is drug related.. this is no exception" the seeing a train come in to my station with about 5 carriages painted window down by ???? blew my fucking mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loafybrown Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 The first thing I took notice of were the sketches in kid's binder covers at school in 8th grade, and then restroom tags from a b-boy kid that went to the same school, and eventually everything else on the streets by different writers. In 8th grade, I asked this b-girl about a sketch in her binder cover, and then she asked if I wanted my name done, so I said OK. then the next school day she had my name written really funky and mad flavorish, and ever since then I was drawn to the style of the letters. that's what really made me get into it myself to start sketching, hitting and bombing; style, maturing my writing style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeithappennn Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Graff really caught my eye when I first started going to hardcore shows in about 98-99,the places I went to were covered with handstyles..never thought it would become such a large part in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavicon Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I think it was about 90 or 91, but i noticed a big silver 'SIVEL' on a billboard off the expressway on my way to get groceries with my ma. Blew my mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebsBK Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 the first graff i ever really noticed was when i was younger going back home to philladelphia every summer...taking the speedline into the city and seeing all these weird, scary ass marks that i couldnt read everywhere....got alittle older, living down south, lots of gang graffiti caught my attention...from then on, i learned alot more about this shit that i have a love/hate relationship with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokals.. Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 maybe Pe.... 88?.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCosbyFamily Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 The first thing I noticed was a big salt piece on a local highway, had me turning my head every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt double Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 i remember seeing gang graffiti in watsonville CA, after watching a movie with my sister, i was about 5. After that, seeing Dorps, Ksino, Damet, and other old school Brisbane Australia dudes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDMA Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 i remember a tag when i was like 4 years old, looked almost like my real name, only 1 letter difference, since then ive been "tagging" my school books with my own name , then when i was like 14 i started to do real graffiti letters etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONT WORRY BOUT IT Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Re: Sick/Pone Are you from Beantown? I did a nice piece up in Framingham with Sick back in 1995 thereaboutz. I didn't know there was a tunnel up there. Yeah but Sick is peeps a 156 Guru all the way live and direct. I'm glad I was one of the instraments that corrupted you into a lifestyle of chaos and mayhem. Yes a Guiness ale would be nice if you get around to the liquor store. Hit me off witha a fleamail and we'll chat Peace Love and Deoderant :D thats wat got me writing i was from boston now im in ashland right next to framingham and i would always see that piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOh Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 in a drainage ditch that tunnelled under the street i grew up on. it was just a marker hit up that said "Michael was here". i wasnt diagnosed with the graffiti disease until much later but i remember being really intrigued by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy. Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 7 line spots on the way home from school. i noticed darks and utz first and then started looking out the window every day to see if there was anything new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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